[PRCo] Re: Incline abandonment dates

[Dwight Long]

Fred

My brother and I rode it on a Saturday around midday in, as I recall, the week before it crumped.  Maybe it was the month before.  We were the only pax.

Dwight

From: Fred Schneider 
Sent: Wednesday, 21 March, 2012 19:44
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Incline abandonment dates
Got cha.  I'll correct on my copy.   Thank you.


On Mar 21, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> The article was from July 7.  And the incline opened in 1872.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 5:35 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Incline abandonment dates
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> Here is what I wrote and he comes up correctly when I opened the file:
> Pittsburgh Press, July 17, 1951, page 3
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> MT OLIVER INCLINE CHUGS ITS LAST
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> City's First Cable Car Victim of 'Shorts'
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>     The Mount Oliver incline, which had managed for 79 years to avoid
> traffic jams, succumbed last night to a severe case of the shorts.
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>     Just after 7 p.m., the up-bound car chugged sturdily from Freyburg St.
> to Warrington Ave. on its final run.   Midway it met its sister vehicle
> whose final performance had turned into a downhill pull. 
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> First Cable Car
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>     Even as the two passed on the steep grade, their owner, the Pittsburgh
> Railways System, was seeking bids to scrap and haul away the historic
> railway.
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>    The Mt. Oliver Incline, then steam-powered, made its first trip in 1972,
> linking the south Hills and Downtown Pittsburgh.  It was the city's first
> cable driven incline car.
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>     Since then it has been bypassed by many other transportation facilities
> such as the Liberty Tubes and the McArdle Roadway which, unlike the old
> incline, sometimes jam up with traffic.
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> Passengers Dwindled
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>     But traffic on the incline dwindled to where it was averaging two
> passengers a run.   It fell victim to what the occupational disease of horse
> bettors and indigent public conveyances - the "shorts." 
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>    The few employes of the incline are being absorbed elsewhere in the
> trolley system.  
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> On Mar 21, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
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>> Some gremlins crept into this translation...July 17?...1972?... but it 
>> does verify the date if one looks in the right place...!
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Fred Schneider
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:20 PM
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Incline abandonment dates
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>> Date for Mount Oliver Incline is correct.   Here is word copy of
> Pittsburgh
>> Press story the following day.   
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